Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Monday, April 09, 2012
New Zealand Modern Classics being reissued in May
From Melbourne-based Australian publisher Text Publishing whom I much admire come the above two NZ modern classics, part of the Text Classic Series. Publication May.
The full list of titles.
The list in brief:
1788, Watkin Tench
A Difficult Young Man, Martin Boyd
An Iron Rose, Peter Temple
Bring Larks And Heroes, Thomas Keneally
Careful, He Might Hear You, Sumner Locke Elliott
Cosmo Cosmolino, Helen Garner
Dark Places, Kate Grenville
Diary Of A Bad Year, J.M. Coetzee
Homesickness, Murray Bail
My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
Stiff, Shane Maloney
Strine, Afferbeck Lauder
Sydney Bridge Upside Down, David Ballantyne
Terra Australis, Mathew Flinders
The Australian Ugliness, Robin Boyd
The Commandant, Jessica Anderson
The Dig Tree, Sarah Murgatroyd
The Dying Trade, Peter Corris
The Even More Complete Book Of Australian Verse, John Clarke
The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony, Henry Handel Richardson
The Glass Canoe, David Ireland
The Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly
The Middle Parts Of Fortune, Frederic Manning
The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab, Fergus Hume
The Plains, Gerald Murnane
The Scarecrow, R. H. Morrieson
The Watch Tower, Elizabeth Harrower
The Women In Black, Madeleine St John
They’re A Weird Mob, Nino Culotta
Wake In Fright, Kenneth Cook
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